Announcing that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, President Donald Trump misplaced the blame for what ails the coal industry and laid a shaky factual foundation for his decision. A look at some of the claims in a Rose Garden speech and an accompanying fact sheet about the deal to curtail emissions responsible for global warming: White House: The Paris climate accord "would effectively decapitate our coal industry, which now supplies about one-third of our electric power.
" The Facts: The U.S. coal industry was in decline long before the Paris accord was signed in 2015. (MORE: Trump Pulls U.S.

Trump: Claims "absolutely tremendous economic progress since Election Day," adding "more than a million private-sector jobs.
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Kellan Jett This article is part of the Big Shortcut, an eight-part series exploring the exponential rise in online learning for high school students who have failed traditional classes.

An increasing number of states are getting serious about vetting the online education companies that are now responsible for instructing a growing number of their kids. And Florida, at first glance, would seem to be one of them. Each year, state officials scrutinize these online courses to ensure they meet state academic standards, as well as several other criteria.

Last year, the Florida Department of Education rejected the company Online Education Ventures, which failed to provide descriptions of its virtual courses in science, social studies, and English (it provided descriptions of the math courses, but they didn’t meet state standards). But here’s the rub: Those companies are still allowed to sell their products to schools in Florida.
Portland Republican says party should use militia groups after racial attack. As tensions continue in Portland following the racially charged murder of two men on Friday, the top Republican in the city said he is considering using militia groups as security for public events.

Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, and Rick Best, 53, were stabbed to death and 21-year-old student Micah David-Cole Fletcher was injured when they came to the aid of two women being subjected to hate speech on public transport.
How Facebook allows users to post footage of children being bullied. Facebook has only recently banned users from posting photos and images mocking people for having illnesses and other serious health conditions, the Guardian can reveal.

The company said the policy had changed in recent months but declined to give details.
How Facebook flouts Holocaust denial laws except where it fears being sued. Facebook’s policies on Holocaust denial will come under fresh scrutiny following the leak of documents that show moderators are being told not to remove this content in most of the countries where it is illegal.

The files explain that moderators should take down Holocaust denial material in only four of the 14 countries where it is outlawed, if reported. One document says the company “does not welcome local law that stands as an obstacle to an open and connected world” and will only consider blocking or hiding Holocaust denial messages and photographs if “we face the risk of getting blocked in a country or a legal risk”. A picture of a concentration camp with the caption “Never again Believe the Lies” was permissible if posted anywhere other than the four countries in which Facebook fears legal action, one document explains. Facebook contested the figures but declined to elaborate. The files explain that “countries are not protected … people from a country are protected”.
Yes, indoor air pollution kills more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB. Emphasizing the need to bring clean fuel to the world’s poor, James Rockall, CEO of the World LPG Association, recently said that "more (people) die of indoor air pollution than malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis combined.

" Rockall’s statement showed up in a tweet from Stanford Energy, a research group at Stanford University, after he spoke there May 9. Rockall confirmed that he did make this claim, and we decided to check it out. Public health researchers have known for some time that in many poorer nations, fumes from dirty cooking stoves pose a health threat. Rockall’s group represents the interests of the liquified petroleum gas industry, but that self-interest aside, there’s no question that gas burns more cleanly than wood or coal.

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Report: U.S. Spends More Per Person On Health Care Than Any Country, Somalia Spends The Least : Goats and Soda. The United States spends the most on health care per person — $9,237 – according to two new papers published in the journal The Lancet.

Somalia spends the least – just $33 per person. Obviously, wealthy countries spend more on health than do poor countries. Overall, where does the money come from?
Does the 'Cyrus prophecy' help explain evangelical support for Donald Trump?
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Klan Was Told to Stop Imitating 'Mister Rogers' on the Phone.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 11— A Federal district judge has ordered the Missouri Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to stop playing racist telephone recordings that imitate the children's television program ''Mister Rogers's Neighborhood.'' The judge, Howard F. Sachs, also ordered the Klan and three of its members on Wednesday to turn over tape recordings and other materials.

Lawyers for ''Mister Rogers'' say the materials infringe on the program's trademarks and copyrights. The judge set a hearing in the case for Oct. 20. Judge Sachs issued the temporary restraining order one day after Fred M. The message imitates the sound effects and song of the program and Mr.
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How 90% of American Households Lost an [...] The average 1 percent household took an additional $3 million of our national wealth in one year while education and infrastructure went largely unfunded. (Photo by Quinn Dombrowski/ flickr CC 2.0) This post originally appeared at Common Dreams. America has always been great for the richest 1 percent, and it’s rapidly becoming greater. Confirmation comes from recent work by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman; and from the 2015-16 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databooks (GWD).
Google’s featured snippets are worse than fake news. Peter Shulman, an associate history professor at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, was lecturing on the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s when a student asked an odd question: Was President Warren Harding a member of the KKK? Shulman was taken aback. He confessed that he was not aware of that allegation, but that Harding had been in favor of anti-lynching legislation, so it seemed unlikely.

But then a second student pulled out his phone and announced that yes, Harding had been a Klan member, and so had four other presidents.
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Who did the Louisiana Purchase actually cost?
Wikimedia Commons/White House Historical Association It’s a familiar chapter in our history, part of the triumphant narrative of westward expansion: In 1803, the United States bought a massive chunk of North America, and we got it for a song.
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